I'm amazed that anyone (especially someone with John's experience) wants
something to look at in the glider (focussing near field) instead of
looking at the sky/terrain/other sailplanes.

The speed to fly audio is a zero reader, using the sense not being used for
the important stuff. All the top Worlds pilots now say it doesn't matter
much what speed you fly, but it's essential to be flying in the right bit
of sky.

And I find the CNv averager fantastic (not to mention the magic auto
cruise/climb and wind info). Two simple numbers, last circle and whole
climb. When A drops below B time to go.

At 13:55 08 June 2013, John Firth wrote:
The great thing about software control of parameters is
that one can change them; a simple program for the PC to change sime
basi
settings would be good.
I have downloaded a recent uprgrade but there remains for me
two items which need attention.

1. changing the short climb smoothing to something which
better reflects a fuill circle
2. control of -ve and -ve audio thresholds to provide a dead band.

Changing any setting in flight ( unless you are alone in wave)
is distracting and potentialy dangerous; eg changing the
MacCready value.

a really valuable addition would be an output for a zero reader
for cruise. ( faster slower) the sinking audio tone is inaudible
behind the airflow noise. A small vertical scale meter can be installed
o
the instument cowl well forward.; no need to refocus.
I had such an indicator on a vario-computer made for the
1970 WGC and it was very useful.

These days one could have array of LED s under a cowl
instead of a meter ( with intensity control), maybe blinking to register
i
the peripheral vision; anything to replace constantly referring to the
vario.

Evan now has something to work on.
Please give me a zero reader output!

John Firth Ottawa. ( PIK 20E)




At 11:39 08 June 2013, Jim - 77 wrote:
On Friday, June 7, 2013 10:05:32 PM UTC-4, Evan Ludeman wrote:
Release Notes: ClearNavVario 2.1.1304 2013-06-07
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Minor Bug Fixes:
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Warnings (Gear, Spoilers) fixed to eliminate a SPOILER alarm during
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anding rollout. The alarm will now reset to the normal =93before
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mode 60 seconds after the speed has dropped below 25 knots during the
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ing phase. In other words, expect a SPOILER alarm after landing unless
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spoilers are locked!
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Pointer indicates zero on the ground in all modes (TE, N, RN)
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Pointer Zero screen relocated to the Vario Settings ribbon
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Volume Adjust screen changed to a range of 0 =96 25

Evan, thanks....Jim